Information processes and properties of information
Answers are for parents and teachers.
1
Write one complete and one incomplete notice about your school and explain why they differ.
The complete notice says what, when and where; the incomplete one lacks one of these.
2
List five information carriers at home.
For example: book, notebook, phone memory, flash drive, newspaper.
3
Give two examples of analog and two of digital information.
Analog: temperature, a sound wave; digital: a grade in a register, clock digits on a phone screen.
4
Give two reasons why information can be distorted in the “broken telephone” game.
It is hard to hear a whisper; each person understands it in his or her own way and changes it.
5
Name two continuous and two discontinuous processes and explain which is which.
Continuous: passing of time, sunlight; discontinuous: strokes of a bell, steps.